PhotoFast's G-Monster SSD Has 64MB Of Cache

DrNip · #1 03-26-2009

PhotoFast's G-Monster SSD Has 64MB Of Cache
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - by Shawn Oliver
PhotoFast may not be a household name in North America, but it may be soon given its freshest line of solid state drives. Over in Japan, the company has announced the impeccably titled G-Monster SSDV4 SLC Series, a lineup which includes 32GB and 64GB models. Both variants promise read speeds of up to 270MB/sec and write speeds of up to 170MB/sec, but those figures aren't what is most interesting.

Unlike most other SSDs and HDDs, these two will include 64MB of internal cache; not that such a number is completely unheard of, but it's certainly not standard fare at this point. PhotoFast has also stated a mean time between failures (MTBF) of 1.5 million hours for the 2.5" SATA SSDs, so longevity definitely shouldn't be an issue. Right now, we're only told of the Japanese prices, which are 46,800 Yen for the 32GB model (around $479) and 84,800 Yen (around $868) for the 64GB model. As expected, a 128GB model is planned for release later in the year.

SOURCE:
http://hothardware.com/News/PhotoFas...64MB-Of-Cache/

Man I wish SDD's would drop in price more!

Kal-EL · #2 03-26-2009

Damn, ur right, these prices need some serious help plummeting.

DrNip · #3 03-27-2009

Hopefully by summer time they will have dropped some more as I am ready to go RAID 0 with some. Lookin at the OCZ Vertex 120GB or the Intel X25-M 80GB SDD's.

Kal-EL · #4 03-27-2009

I think one of these will suffice for me. I can't see needing an insane raid 0 setup unless the price is right.

Chuchnit · #5 03-28-2009

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Originally Posted by Kal-EL

I think one of these will suffice for me. I can't see needing an insane raid 0 setup unless the price is right.

I'm thinking the same thing. Speeds are nearly double or more of my raid 0 setup right now and that's just one SSD.

DrNip · #6 03-28-2009

Oh if prices are the same in the summer I will only be getting one but hopefully they do fall and I will be able to get two for the price of that by then.

Buckeye · #7 06-06-2009

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Originally Posted by Kal-EL

I think one of these will suffice for me. I can't see needing an insane raid 0 setup unless the price is right.

Not needing an insane SSD Raid 0, are you out of your mind !!!!

Kal-EL · #8 06-06-2009

Fixed that photo up for yah buddy by just using the clickable thumbnail url in [img] tags.

And how much did that raid 0 set u back again? LOL